Poison-distributer.



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2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

- PATENTED OCT. 18, 1904.

I` BRANDT. POISON DISTRIBUTEB.. APPLIQATION Hmm JUM: 14, 1904.

No MODEL.

IINITED STATES Patented october 18, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

POISON-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,454, dated October 18, 1904.

I Application led Tulle 14, 1904. Serial Nin 212,464. (No'model.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

.Be it known that I, PETTER BRANDT, a citi- Zen of the United States, residingat Chisago City, in the county'of Chisagoand State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Im provements in Poison-Distributers; and

I do herebg7 declare the following to be a full, l

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same.

- My invention has for its object to provide a simple and eiiioient poison-distributing device adapted to be carried by a person and to. be used to spray plants with a liquid solution which will serve to kill noxious bugs and insects.

To the .above ends the invention consists of the novel devices andcombinations of devices hereinafter described, and deiined in the claims. p

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate likeparts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is perspective view illustrating the figure of a man and showing'rny improved -poison-distributer in use. Fig. 2 is a view,

partly in plan and. partly in vertical section, showing the combined pump and spraying de- 'Vice which constitutes theV principal feature of my invention. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line w8 m3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a' transverse section on the line m4 mi of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation'of the combined pump and4 spraying device, some parts being broken away. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the parts shown ,in'Fig.` 5, and Fig-7 is a detail view illustrating a modified form of the sprayingnozzle. l The numeral 1 indicates the figure of a man. The numeral' 2 indicates atank, preferablyk of light sheet4 metal, which tank is adapted to contain the poisonous ,liquid which is to be sprayed upon the plants. At the top of the tank 2 is a removable cap 3, that closes a neck which when opened admits the poisonous liquid to be introduced into the-tank. tank is preferably carried from the shoulders, substantially as shown in Fig. 1, and for this purpose is provided with a shoulder-strap 4. The numeral 5 indicates the barrel of an sleeve 16 and around the neck 13.

The

air-pump, the same having at its discharge end an air-outlet passage 6, which is closed against an inflow of air by a check-valve 7,

applied to the said end of the barrel 5. Working within the barrel 5 is a pump-piston 8, having a stem 9, which works outward through a cap 10 on the outer end of the barrel 5 and, as shown, is terminated in a transverse handpiece 11. The stem 9 worksl in the head 10 in the usual way under suiiicient clearance to permit a quite free iiow of air into the barrelv under the pumping action. The intermediate portion 8L of the piston-head 8 works as a valve, which closes against the body of the head 8 under a working stroke thereof, but opens under a return stroke. In other words, the two valves 7 and 8 operate in alternate order. p

Rigidly secured to and surrounding the discharge end portion of the barrel 5 is an airreservoir 12, which at its projecting end is formed with a discharge nipple or spout 13. The projecting end of the neck 13 is expanded to form a head 14, onto which is screwed a lspraying-nozzle 15. A sleeve-16 surrounds the neck 13, has screw-threaded engagement with the shank thereof at 17, and has'an inturned flange at its other end, which is pressed against a flange of the head 14 and the margin of the spraying-nozzle 15. `An'annular water-chamber 18 is thus formed within the A plurality of small perforations 19 lead from the water-chamber 18 through the head 14 and into thecavity formed within the sprayingnozzle 15. The air-chamber 12 has aneck 12, and the sleeve 16 has a neck 16", to which necks, respectively, flexible tubes v20v and 21 are' attached. The other end of the tube '20 is connected to a neck 20, which opens into the upper portion of the tank 2, while the other endl of the'tube 21 is connected to a short neck 21a, that opens from the lower portion of said tank. Y

The spraying-nozzle shown in Fig. 2 is intended to throw but a single spray, and hence has a single centrally-located discharge-orifice 15a. -The spraying-nozzle illustrated in Fig. 7 is intended to throw two sprays at angies diverging from each other, and hence is provided with two diverging discharge-oriices 15b.

-To open and close the discharge-orifice 15 of the spraying-nozzle 15 at will, I provide valve mechanism which may be conveniently arranged as follows: The numeral 22 indicates a short rock-shaft journaled in bearings 23 on the sleeve 16 and provided at its outer end with an arm 24, which operates as a valve to open and close the oriiice 15. At its inner end the shaft 22 is provided with an arm 25, which is connected by a link 26 to an arm 27 of a second rock-shaft 28, which latter rock-shaft is journaled in bearings 29 on the exterior of the air-reservoir 12. The rear end of this rock-shaft 28 is terminated `in a crank-like finger-piece which stands in position to be readily engaged by the hand which is used to hold the pump-barrel 5.

The manner of operating the spraying device is probably obvious, and is clearly illustrated rin Fig. 1. As is evident, when the piston 8 is moved outward air will be drawn into the pump-barrel 5 ahead or' the piston.

Then under an operative stroke of the piston in a reverse direction air will be forced out of the pump-barrel into the air-reservoir 12, land from thence will pass, in part, into the tank 2 through the tube 2O and will be discharged, in part, through the neck 13 and through the discharge orifice or orilices of the spraying-nozzle 15. The pressure put upon the poisonous liquid within the tank 2 will cause the same to flow through the tube 21 into the commingling-chamber 18 and from thence by the combined action of the pressure back of the same and by the suction produced by the discharge of air from the neck 13 and spraying-nozzle 15 will be taken up in small quantities and commingled with the air which is discharged from said nozzle under an atomizing action. In this way a tine spray of the poisonous liquid is generated, and by the apparatus may be delivered onto the plants, shrubs, or trees at the points where desired.

It will of course be understood that the airpump must be kept in almost continuous action; but it should also be understood that the auxiliary supply of air stored in the tank 2 will afford a supply of air under pressure to maintain acontinuous spraying action while the pump-piston is given its return stroke and, in fact, for some little time while the pump is out of action.

By means of the valve 24 and its operating connections the discharge of the spray el the commingled air and water from the sprayingnozzle may be cut elf in an instant, thereby holding the compressed charge ol air for subsequent use and preventing waste of the poisonous liquid in passing' from one place to another where the spray is not required.

The device above described, while of small cost, is easy to manipulate and has in practice been found extremely eiiicient for the purposes had in view. The said device it will of course be understood is capable of modilication within the scope of my invention as herein set forth and claimed.

'Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. 1n a spraying device of the character described, the combination or' a hand-operated pump, or' an air-reservoir surrounding a portion or' the barrel of said pump, and conununicating therewith, an air-discharge neck projecting from said air-reservoir, and provided at its outer end with a spraying-nozzle, a water-chamber surrounding said neck and communicating with the interior of said nozzle, a tank adapted to contain the liquid to be sprayed, and tube connections, one leading 'from said air-reservoir to said tank, and the other leading from the lower portion ol said tank to the water-chamber surrounding said ai r-discharge neck` substantially as described.

2. The combination with a tank 2 having a shoulder-strap 4, of an air-pump having a barrel 5, a ,portion oi which serves as a handpiece, the air-reservoir 12, secured to and surrounding a portion of said pump-barrel 5, and having the discharge-neck 13, terminating in the head 14, having perforations 19, the perforated spraying-nozzle 15 applied to said head 14, the sleeve 1G surrounding` said head 13 and affording the chamber 1S, the tube 2O connecting said air-reservoir 12 to said tank 2, and the tube 21 connecting the lower portion of said tank 2 with said chain ber 18, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence or' two witnesses.

PETTER BRAN l )'l`.

litnessesz R. C. l\1ABnY, F. D. MERCHANT.

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